#SW Spoilers

[nobie]

TALES OF THE EMPIRE (MAY 4TH, 2024)

[thekenobee]

Quotes from "ANDOR" which keep haunting me:

"Gets to you, doesn't it? That's what a reckoning sounds like."

"That's just love. Nothing you can do about that."

"But this time... You can't stay and I can't go."

"Power doesn't panic."

"I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. And the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or the light of gratitude."

"Never more than twelve."

"ONE WAY OUT!"

"I've made my mind a sunless place. I share my dreams with ghosts."

"I can't swim."

"Let's call it war."

"Tyranny requires constant effort. Authority is brittle. It breaks, it leaks. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

"Freedom is a pure idea."

"I show you the stone in my hand, you miss the knife at your throat."

"Tell him I love him more than anything he could ever do wrong."

"The Empire is a disease that thrives in darkness, it is never more alive than when we sleep."

[and-loth-cat]

cant believe sol killed the galaxy's first lesbians

this is a step back in gay rights that would never be recovered until luke took down the empire in chanel boots

[absolxguardian]

Reminder that the Acolyte takes inspiration from the film Rashomon, so the show is going to be full of unreliable narrators. That's exactly what we saw in this episode, with the coven repeating anti-Jedi positions that are familiar to the fandom, while the Jedi themselves show the thematic connection between queerness/neurodivergence that has been established more recently. Additionally, the new eu has clarified very recently that, unlike in Legends, the Jedi can't take children without parental permission (although I'm guessing in cases like Osha and Mae they can ask defer to the children's wishes). This has been stated very explicitly in media made while the Acolyte was in production, and if the intention was that the Jedi can take force-sensitive children, those details wouldn't have gone to print.

I think preserving this ambiguity is exactly why Indara was cut off when she was explaining what Republic law states about training children into Force religions. Because if there is any kind of law about that, it would have been enacted after phases 1/3 of the High Republic in response to the Elders of the Path, an anti-Force religion who are very heavily coded after anti-queer religious cults. What the Jedi were doing is the equivalent of the government checking in on religious groups that practice homeschooling to make sure there's no abuse by denying information going on.

Another context the High Republic gives us, this time back in phase 2, is that the Republic- and by extension the Jedi- are very tolerant of other Force religions. There are dark side faiths on Jedha- such as the Brotherhood of the Ninth Door and the Central Isopter. So Aniseya's coven can't be as innocent as she presents them. They must have committed actual crimes to be persecuted in the way they claim. The Path of the Open Hand (the predecessor to the Elders of the Path that were also anti-Force) was tolerated as they preached against all other Force religions until evidence that they were stealing artifacts was found.

I think the fact that all this information comes from the High Republic, the very project that Leslye Headland is a big fan of and pre-release material has been telling everyone to read is significant. This isn't some random panel from a comic published in 2015, this is from media that was considered when writing the Acoytle. Maybe lets not trust the woman running the enmeshed codependent sibling relationship factory.

[residentevilnet]

Ada Wong | Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways (2023)

[sersi]

AHSOKA - Part One: Master and Apprentice dir. Dave Filoni

[wewerepartners]

SEPARATE WAYS (2023)

[revilladies]

Ada Wong in RE4R: Separate Ways (2023)

[funemployed-fangirl]

y'all season 3 better begin like

I swear to god

[elena-gilbert]

QI'RA | Star Wars Outlaws (2024) dev. Massive Entertainment

[twilightofthe]

aight so satine got impaled by lightsaber through the upper chest and died immediately

sabine got impaled by lightsaber through the upper chest and was just fine lmao

i guess sabine just won the mando name war--

wait a fuck lightsaber thru the chest insta-killed qui gon

actually i think i know the true answer

lightsabers through the chest don't actually kill anyone, it's being in proximity to obi wan kenobi that does it

[salome-c]

Sending my therapy bills to LucasFilm.

[space-blue]

jedi thoughts

One thing I like about the Acolyte regarding the fight before Jecki's death, is that you can FEEL and SEE the exact moment Sol would have said something to curtail her and order her to calm down and not let her feelings take over.

When she leaps past him :

I'm sure it's more to do with establishing her arrival into the shot, but his look, paired with her reckless attack, her being alone in the fight when she unmasks a dangerous opponent, and the way she's screaming and whailing with too much feeling into each stroke...

To me it feels like an iconic "control yourself/your feelings" or "stay centred" rebuke moment. But he doesn't. He doesn't want to distract her, it's dangerous, and it's happening right now. There's no time for it.

And then she's dead. It felt real, and that last leg of her fight, while beautiful, has a grim quality to it. A live demonstration of why you don't want to be overconfident.

I could almost hear Obi-Wan yelling at Anakin for this. In the Clone Wars Anakin would fight like Jecki, get hurt, get told off, and live another day to be more reckless. But Jecki didn't have plot armour, and she shows us why such recklesness, against a poorly known enemy, is terrible.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Woman can't even lose a fight and die without these fuckers saying she's overpowered.

[absolxguardian]

This episode had, in my opinion, the best fight choreography of anything star wars ever. It had a visceralness you don't usually see in star wars. The use of martial arts films stylization movements still felt grounded because of the Force. It has the sense of power and skill from prequel fights but more grounded. It reminds me a lot of the cinematics for SWTOR (although it's hard to convey being grounded and visceral when working with photorealistic cgi). Especially Qimir, this is the fighting of actual war. And you see how the Jedi are more flashy and have to bring themselves "down" to Qimir's level to fight him. Other than the disparity in combat skills, this is what fights should look like in the Old Republic. Which makes sense from the character's perspective of this being an ancient evil that was defeated nine centuries ago coming back to haunt them. But without the refinement of Dooku or Palpatine. This is the skills of front line Sith, not schemers.

[residentevilnet]

Resident Evil 5 (2009) / Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023)